Mentoring

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START EARLY: Waiting until they are Seniors may be too late. 
Mentoring at the Secondary Level
  • Use every opportunity to share your profession
    • Tell them how much you love your job
    • Ask them “Have you thought about teaching?”
    • Explain the steps to becoming a teacher
  • Promote “Career Pathway” programs in your high school
    • Invite “Career Pathways” counselor to your classes
    • Tell your students about immersion school teaching opportunities
  • Give them role models
    • Ask for testimonials from former students who are French teachers
    • Accept a student teacher
  • Offer AATF Chapter outreach
    • Offer recruiting workshops, webinars, podcasts for students
    • Invite French majors and French education students to programs
    • Contact post-secondary French and Education professors regularly
Mentoring at the Post-Secondary Level
  • Utilize every opportunity to share our profession
    • Tell them how much you love your job
    • Ask them “Have you thought about K-12 teaching?”
    • Explain the steps to becoming a K-12 teacher
      • undergraduate
      • graduate
    • Talk, talk, talk about the rewards of being a K-12 French teacher
    • Display testimonials from former students who are K-12 French teachers
    • Include teaching K-12 French at Career Fair
  • Offer “teaching” opportunities
    • Service learning
      • local immigrant/refugee support
      • Resources
        • Étudiants sans frontières, Vol. 1 Integrating Service-Learning & Volunteer Opportunities Vol. II
    • Internships in K-12 schools
      • Extra-curricular
      • Course requirement
    • Tutoring on campus
    • Cultural events for high school students
  • Participate actively in Freshman Advising
    • Four year planning for French
      • Major
      • Minor
      • Certificate
      • K-12 licensure
    • Addition of French endorsement to licensure in other subjects
    • Prospect of French MAT
  • Include K-12 Teaching French at Career Fair events